VALUER.ai Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

Introduction

Valuer understands that as visitors to our website www.valuer.ai, potential customers, and users of Valuer products Valuer.ai, you care about how your information is collected, used, processed, transferred, stored, and shared. This Privacy Policy describes the lengths to which Valuer goes to protect your privacy, including the ways in which we may contact you.

The Information We Collect

We collect information directly from individuals, from third-parties, and automatically through the Valuer Platform. If you choose not to disclose certain personal information, it may limit your access to certain services or features, including account registration, and the ability to follow other Valuer users or share content on other sites.

1. What We Collect & How We Use It

1.1 Website

1.1 Website When you visit the Website, you are not required to actively provide any information, but the analytics software we use may collect some Personal Data and Navigation Information.

Account and Profile Information: When you create an account and profile on the Valuer Platform, we collect your name, contact information, and other information you provide. Your name, photo, and any other information that you choose to add to your public-facing profile will be available for viewing to users of the Valuer Platform.

Communications: When you communicate with us (via email, phone, through the Valuer Platform or otherwise), we may maintain a record of your communication.

Links to Other Websites

The Valuer Platform may contain links to third-party sites or online services. We are not responsible for the practices of such third parties, whose information practices are subject to their own policies and procedures, not to this Privacy Policy.

1.2 Valuer Products

We may collect Personal Data and Navigation Information from Users of our Product to help us provide, administer, and improve our platform. In order to request access to and use the Product, you will need to provide your full name and email address to us. To make changes to the permission you give us, please visit your Valuer User profile.

1.3 Collected Personal Data & Navigation Information

“Personal Data” refers to any information that can be used to identify you personally. For our purposes, this includes your (first and last) name, company name, phone number, company size, the industry you are in and your interests for startups, data you enter into the open write-in box of our contact form.

“Navigation Information” refers to information about your computer, device, visits to the Website, and use of the Products. We collect browsing information – such as IP address and location, date and time stamp, user agent, Valuer cookie ID (if applicable), URL, unique advertising or content identifiers (if applicable), and time zone, and other information about user activities on the Valuer Platform.

In cases where the information can be used to identify you personally, Navigation Information would also be considered Personal Data.

1.4 Automatically Collected Information About Your Activity.

We use cookies, log files, pixel tags, local storage objects, and other tracking technologies to automatically collect information about your activities, such as your searches, page views, date and time of your visit, and other information about your use of the Valuer Platform. We also collect and may store information that your computer or mobile device provides to us in connection with your use of the Valuer Platform such as your browser type, type of computer or mobile device, browser language, IP address, mobile carrier, unique device identifier, location, and requested and referring URLs.We also receive information when you view content on or otherwise interact with the Valuer Platform, even if you have not created an account. For more information, see the Cookie Policy section in “Terms and Conditions”.

1.5 Purposes and Legal Bases for Our Using of Your Information

We do not sell your personal data – such as your name and contact information – to third parties to use for their own marketing purposes.

Generally, we may use your Personal Data and Navigation Information for the following purposes:

Provide our Services. To provide you the services we offer on the Valuer Platform, communicate with you about your use of the Valuer Platform, respond to your inquiries, provide troubleshooting, and for other customer service purposes.

Personalization. To tailor the content and information that we may send or display to you in the Valuer Platform, to suggest followers and content, to offer location customization and personalized help and instructions, and to otherwise personalize your experiences while using the Valuer Platform.

Marketing and Promotions.For marketing and promotional purposes, such as to send you news and newsletters, special offers, and promotions, or to otherwise contact you about products or information we think may interest you, including information about third party products and services.

Analytics. To gather metrics to better understand how users access and use the Valuer Platform; to evaluate and improve the Valuer Platform, including the Ad Services and personalization, and to develop new products and services.

Comply with Law. To comply with legal obligations, as part of our general business operations, and for other business administration purposes.

The Website and Products integrate some services provided by third parties. We may share some of your information with these service providers so they can provide their services, including payment processing, removing repetitive information from prospect lists, analyzing data, marketing support, customer and/or User profiling, business development, and customer service.

To ensure that your Personal Data is processed, used, stored, and transferred securely and in accordance with European Union law, Valuer uses service providers that provide sufficient guarantees to implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your information. For service providers that may transfer Personal Data outside the European Economic Area, Valuer confirms that it implements appropriate safeguards for such transfers (e.g. Privacy Shield certification, EU Standard Contractual Clauses, binding corporate rules).

1.6 Social media buttons

On our website we use the social media plug-ins from platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Vimeo, YouTube and G-mail. Plug-ins can be recognized by the social media buttons marked with the logos of these companies. Plug-ins are also used for the embedded video players which can be found on our website. When you surf on our website, no information of you will initially be collected by the providers of these social media plug-ins. Only if you click on one of the plug-ins or one of the videos will your information be transmitted: by activating the plug-in, data is automatically transmitted to the respective plug-in provider and stored by them. We do not have influence on the collected data and data processing operations conducted by these social media providers and are not aware of the full extent of data collection, the purposes or the retention periods.

Information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by social media platforms can be found in the respective data protection policies of these providers, where you will also find further information on your rights and options for privacy protection. Please refer to the websites of these social media platforms for their data protection policies.

2. Retention & Security of Personal Data

2.1 Retention of Personal Data

We retain Personal Data for as long as we reasonably consider it to be necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, after which time the information will be securely deleted.

2.2 Transfer of Personal Data

As an international company with customers and Users worldwide, we may transfer and access Personal Data from around the world, including the United States. To comply with European Union data protection law, we maintain strong data protection and privacy controls to protect your Personal Data and ensure it during cross-border and international transfers, as well as during periods of storage in foreign countries (e.g. Privacy Shield certification, EU Standard Contractual Clauses, binding corporate rules). Please email [email protected] for a copy of these safeguards.

Because we believe that your right to privacy is not contingent on your nationality, no matter where you or your data are located, transferred, or accessed from, the high standards in this Privacy Policy will still apply.

2.3 How We Share Your Information

We share information as set forth below, and where individuals have otherwise consented:

Service Providers. We may share your information with third party service providers who use this information to perform services for us, such as payment processors, hosting providers, auditors, advisors, consultants, customer service and support providers, as well as those who assist us in providing the Ad Services.

Business Transfers. We may disclose or transfer information, including personal information, as part of any merger, sale, and transfer of our assets, acquisition or restructuring of all or part of our business, bankruptcy, or similar event.

Legally Required. We may disclose your information if we are required to do so by law.

Protection of Rights. We may disclose information where we believe it necessary to respond to claims asserted against us or, comply with legal process (e.g., subpoenas or warrants), enforce or administer our agreements and terms, for fraud prevention, risk assessment, investigation, and protect the rights, property or safety of Valuer, its users, or others.

Metrics. We may share with users of our advertisers or publishers aggregate statistics, metrics and other reports about the performance of their ads or content in the Valuer Platform such as the number of unique user views, demographics about the users who saw their ads or content, conversion rates, and date and time information. We do not share IP addresses or personal information. We may also allow our advertisers or publishers to use Pixels on the Valuer Platform in order to collect information about the performance of their ads or content.

Anonymized and Aggregated Data. We may share aggregate or de-identified information with third parties for research, marketing, analytics and other purposes, provided such information does not identify a particular individual.

2.4 Access and Amend Your Information

You may update or correct your account information at any time by logging in to your account. You may also make a number of other adjustments to settings or the display of information about you as described in more detail in the following section about Your Choices.

2.5 Your Choices

You may, of course, decline to submit information through the Valuer Platform, in which case we may not be able to provide certain services to you. You may also control the types of notifications and communications we send, limit the information shared within the Valuer Platform about you, and otherwise amend certain privacy settings.

2.6 Emails and Communications

When you join the Valuer Platform by signing up for an account or creating a profile, as part of the service, you will receive the Valuer newsletters, onboarding messages, and direct messages containing content that we believe may match the interests of your organization. You can manage your email and notice preferences in your account profile settings, under your Emails and Notifications settings. Additionally, when using an email messaging tool like mailchimp, email-octopus, or sendgrid; every message will give you the opportunity to log off.

If you opt-out of receiving emails about recommendations or other information we think may interest you, we may still send you transactional emails about your account or any services you have requested or received from us.

3. Your Rights: Opt-Out & Anti-Spam Policy

With respect to your Personal Data, you have the right to:

Request that your Personal Data will not be processed;

Review the Personal Data that we have about you;

Request a correction of any errors in or update of the Personal Data that we have about you;

Request that your Personal Data will not be used to contact you for direct marketing purposes;

Request that your Personal Data will not be used for profiling purposes;

Request that your Personal Data will not be used to contact you at all;

Request that your Personal Data be transferred or exported to another organization, or deleted from our records; or

At any time, withdraw any permission you have given us to process your Personal Data.

You may also contact our privacy coordinator, as set forth below, to access or amend your personal information, to request that we rectify, delete or stop processing your personal information, to withdraw your consent to our processing, and, if you are an EEA resident, to exercise your opt-out rights or place a data portability request. Requests should be directed to [email protected]

Contact Us

Valuer.ai is responsible for the data protection of the site.

If you have any questions about our practices, Privacy Policy or want your data deleted, please contact us at [email protected]

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on this page. If we make any changes to this Privacy Policy that materially change how we treat your personal information, we will endeavor to provide you with reasonable notice of such changes, such as via prominent notice in the Valuer Platform or to your email address of record, and where required by law, we will obtain your consent or give you the opportunity to opt out of such changes.

Cookie policy

What are Cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a website or online service saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the Website or use the Products. It remembers your actions and preferences to save you time when you return or browse from one page to another.

Valuer uses cookies and comparable techniques to ensure that we provide you with the optimal experience when using the Website, Products, and to learn from our visitors and Users to improve the Website and Products, as well as tailoring our communications with you.

How do We Use Cookies?

2.1 Functional cookies

The cookies listed below are necessary for the proper functioning of our website. These cookies help us, among other things, to track errors in our Website, which allows us to improve the functioning of the Website. These cookies also make sure you can use our Website in a secure environment and also, for example, that you can save your login data and your preferred language, so you will not have to keep entering this every time you use the Website.

Name

Provider

Purpose

Expiry

chatlio_at,chatlio_rt,chatlio_uuid

Chatlio cookie for chat support

1 year

MARKETINGCONSENT

We use this cookie to store your marketing cookie preference

1 year

cookieBar

We use this cookie to remember if you closed the cookie notification bar (will be replaced 25th May 2018)

2 years

cfid, USERID, USERHASH

We don’t use this functional cookie, it’s set by default by our CMS

30 years

MOBILEFORMAT, ORIGINALURLTOKEN

Is set to TRUE if you are using a mobile device

Session

ORIGINALURLTOKEN

We don’t use this functional cookie, it’s set by default by our CMS

Session

__cfduid

Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic.

1 year

drift_aid

Drift chat identifier cookie (anonymous)

Session

drift_sid

.

Drift chat identifier token for specific browser session (anonymous)

Session

driftt_wmd

Drift chat boolean indicating the user has dismissed the welcome message in this session

Session

DFTT_END_USER_PREV_BOOTSTRAPPED

Drift boolean indicating the user has previously been authenticated

2 years

__d_hsutk

Drift chat boolean indicating the Hubspot UTK has been checked

Session

2.2 Analytical cookies

The cookies listed below are analytical cookies, which are cookies that are used to gain insight into the use of the Website and our Products. These cookies allow us to improve the Website in terms of quality and effectivity and help us to understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and analyzing information anonymously.

Name

Provider

Purpose

Expiry

_ga

Google Analytics sets a cookie that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website (anonymous).

2 years

_gid

Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website (anonymous).

1 day

_gat,_gat_gtag_UA*

Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate

Session

test_cookie

Tests for cookie setting permissions for Google Analytics

Session

__utma

Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the website as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics. (anonymous)

2 years

__utmt

Used to throttle the speed of requests to the server. (anonymous)

10 minutes

__utmb

Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user accessed the website. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a website visit. (anonymous)

30 minutes

__utmz

Collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search term was used. Used by Google Analytics. (anonymous)

30 minutes

__utmx,__utmxx,__utmxx

Google Optimize uses this cookie to determine a user’s inclusion in an experiment. (Only when experiments are live)

1,5 years

Optimizely

We use various names for A/B testing cookies. They all contain the word VARIANT

1 year

_hjIncludedInSample

We use HotJar for anonymous heatmaps so we can improve our navigation

Session

2.3 Marketing cookies

The cookies listed below are marketing cookies, which are cookies that are used by us to be able to improve your browsing experience and to learn your preferences, so that we can improve our marketing strategy and provide you with tailored offers. Marketing cookies are also needed to make use of embedded video services.

Name

Provider

Purpose

Expiry

Act, c_user, csm, fr, lu, s, presence, p, xs

.facebook.com

Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party advertisers. (internet based targeting)

Max 1 year after session/update

lidc, bcookie, bscookie

.linkedin.com

LinkedIn Uses this cookie for routing data

1 day

L1c

www.linkedin.com

LinkedIn browser ID cookie

Session

BizoID, BizoData, BizoUserMatchHistory, BizoNetworkPartnerIndex

www.linkedin.com

LinkedIn Ad analytics

6 months

collect

.google-analytics.com

Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behaviour. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels.

Session

id

.yieldlab.com

Yieldlab ads tracking code via google adwords

__ar_v4

.doubleclick.net

DoubleClick tracking code via google adwords

5 years

IDE

.doubleclick.net

DoubleClick tracking code via google adwords

test_cookie

.doubleclick.net

Tests for cookie setting permissions for Doubleclick

Session

SID, NID, HSID, DV, SIDCC, SSID, APISID, SAPISID

.google.com

Google adwords tracking code

Max 1 year after session/update

rpb,put_,rpx,c,khaos

.rubiconproject.com

Rubiconproject tracking cookie via Google Adwords

Max 1 year after session/update

utm.gif

.google.com

Google Analytics pixel tracker

Session

__hstc

The main Hubspot cookie for tracking visitors. It contains the domain, utk, initial timestamp, last timestamp, current timestamp, and session number

2 years

__hssc

This Hubspot cookie is used for to keep track of a visitor’s identity

30 minutes

__hssrc

This Hubspot cookie is used for to keep track of a visitor’s identity

Session

__hs_opt_out

This cookie is used by the opt-in privacy policy to remember not to ask the user to accept cookies again

2 years

LD_*

.youtube.*

Youtube cookies track which video you have watched.

99 years

LOGIN_INFO

.youtube.com

Youtube sets this cookie if you are a logged in user of Youtube

2 years

PREF

.youtube.com

Youtube saves your preferences in this cookie

2 years

YSC

.youtube.com

Youtube session cookie

Sessie

VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

.youtube.com

Youtube user ID cookie

2 jaar

CONSENT

.youtube.com

Google consent information (only if you are logged in to youtube and accepted the google privacy policy)

This overview of cookies is a snapshot. Valuer strives to keep this list as up-to-date as reasonably possible. However, considering the dynamic characteristic of the internet and the many (external) parties involved, it is possible that not all current cookies are listed at all times.

How to Manage your Cookies

Allowing cookies is not strictly necessary for the Website and Products to work, but doing so will provide you with a better browsing experience. These cookies are placed as the default, but you can delete or block these cookies, but if you do some features may not work as intended. You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. If you indicate your approval by clicking ‘ok’ on the cookies banner without changing your settings, we will assume that you are happy to receive all cookies from the Website and Products. Please know that we don’t place analytical and marketing cookies until you’ve indicated your approval. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit the Website or use the Products and some features or functionalities may not work.

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